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Power and ecstasy

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These colours also stand for various human races

Gods and Godmen
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The rise of the spiritual market has been marked by open political leanings and reduced immunity for criminal activities

The Cult of Hanuman
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Political masculinity gets a divine mascot

Can the Hanuman Sticker Serve as a Prophecy for 2019?
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It’s the culture, stupid

The Day of the Goddesses
V Shoba

Telangana hosts India’s biggest carnival of tribal counterculture. Open chronicles the faith and frenzy on the river Godavari

Indebted to Pleasure
Shylashri Shankar

We now break more food boundaries for the pure joy of it

Sri Ramakrishna and Ramana Maharshi: Their Pristine Example
Arun Shourie

What the mystic experience of Sri Ramakrishna and Ramana Maharshi tells us in the age of wealthy gods and godmen

God’s Kitchen: Celestial Palate
Shylashri Shankar

A report from God’s kitchen explains how Lord Venkateshwara is fed

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